Improvement in bed-bottoms



C. B. SPENCER.

Bed-Bottoms.

No.14l023.

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AUNITED STATES PATENT l OEEIcE CHARLES B. SPENCER, OF HASTINGS, MINNESOTA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BED-BCTTOMS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,023, dated November 25, 1873 application filed May l, 1873.'

. ments in Bed-Bottoms, of which the following is a specication:

The nature of my invention relates to animprovement in bed-bottoms; and it consists in the arrangement and combination of partsY which will be more fully described' hereafter.

The accompanying drawings represent my invention.

A B represent the frame, to which the slats C are secured by means of the springs D. These springs, shaped as shown in Figs. 5 and 6, have their lower ends, k, turned at right angles, and which are placed in the groove H, made in the top of the cross-rail A, and then secured in position by means of the metallic plates g. Just above these ends the spring is curved upward, as shown at 2, so that the spring will not strike the inside of the rail when pressed downward. The upper end of the spring is secured in a groove, H', on the under side of the sla-t by a button, g. EX- tending upward from each of the side rails B are two uprights or posts, f, to which the jointed guide-rods E are secured by means of the leather or other strap 3. These rods consist of'short metallic half-round bars, which are secured to each side of the strap, as shown in Fig. 4, their ends being beveled away, so as' 

